Jack Adams Quotes

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• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
• I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
• The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
• Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called…
• If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
• I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
• A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
• After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
• Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral…
• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we…
• We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were…
• The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on…
• Those who will not start, will never finish.
• On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands,…
• We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving…
• You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
• In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

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